John Haworth Drewry Letters
Letters from John Haworth Drewry to his parents. Learn more.
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RFC Per Ardua Ad Astra
it is certainly delightful. By the way, we had a real Canadian canoe and did not fuss about with any of their clumsy skiffs or punts. On Monday I took myself for a shopping expedition, and seemed to run into all the friends I have in the R.A.F. Jimmy Gray is in Hospital, having played out and become run down. I found him in the Royal Automobile Club with several other aviators from Canada whom you would not know. Tuesday I took the morning train north from Kings Cross station and landed in Pontefract that afternoon.
I am now sitting in a summer house beside the tennis court at the Blomfields and writing on the lid of a note-paper box, so that accounts for the horrible scrawl.
BC Archives, 93-6553, Box 4, / DREWRY FAMILY / Selected correspondence, 1917–1919.